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Monday, December 26, 2016

This is a cut-out of a bigger acrylic painting. The surrounding was stunning with the beautiful wooden interior and the mirrors on the wall of this well renowned Café. For sure you need to drink a port there.

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Monday, December 19, 2016

This is a sketch from the centre of Crailsheim. On the left hand side is the Schiller pharmacy building. We did not have that much snow by then (...it is out of my imagination).Dies ist eine Aquarellskizze aus der Stadtmitte von Crailsheim. Auf der linken Seite befindet sich die Schiller Apotheke. Bisher hatten wir noch kaum Schnee (...den habe ich mir nur ausgedacht.)

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Saturday, December 17, 2016

Once again a very small sketch: On the right in front of the tower there is again yesterdays hunters house (which nowadays is a museum). The wall surrounding the city is in front. We are outside the once protecting wall.

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Monday, December 12, 2016

The first picture is the endversion, the other two underneath are process shots of the unfinished painting. This is a big one with 80 x 100 cm and was real fun to paint. I used Lascaux Acrylic colours - smooth and very dense pigments - cool to paint with.

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Saturday, December 10, 2016

This is one of the bridges in Portimao. This sketch is tiny. In the background you see part of the other bridge.If you cross the bridge in front and turn right the street will lead you to the beautiful town of Ferragudo. There you see picturesque houses, boats and you have a good view onto River Arade. Everything a painter dreams of...Dies ist eine der Brücken von Portimao. Es ist eine sehr kleine Skizze. Im Hintergrund sieht man einen Teil der anderen Brücke. Wenn man die vordere Brücke überquert und danach rechts abbiegt fährt man in Richtung des schönen Fischerdörfchens Ferragudo. Dort gibt es sehenswerte Häuschen, schöne Fischerboote und man hat einen guten Blick auf den Fluß Arade.Alles wovon Maler träumen...

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Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Part of this painting was already on the Blog so today you can see the whole big thing.Underneath the upper final version I show you a few steps of my painting. The underpainting was done in a yellowish tone. I started with dark violet and brown to paint the darkest parts. Then I continued with lighter colors. Faces and highlights above all in the hair of the persons I did in the end.